Usually means: Spice with a licorice flavor.
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  1. anise: Merriam-Webster
  2. anise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. anise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. anise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. anise: Vocabulary.com
  6. Anise, anise: Wordnik
  7. anise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. anise: Wiktionary
  9. anise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. anise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. anise: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Anise, anise: Dictionary.com
  13. anise: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Anise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Anise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. anise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. anise: Rhymezone
  18. Anise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. anise: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. anise: FreeDictionary.org
  21. anise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. anise: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. anise: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. anise: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Anise: Health & Beauty Glossary
  2. Encyclopedia of Spices (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anise: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. anise: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. anise: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anise: Bar-Nones Dictionary of Drinking

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Anise: Easton Bible
  2. Anise: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. anise: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anise: Beauty & Health Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (anise)

noun:  An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds, which are used as a spice. It has a licorice scent.
noun:  (US, often qualified as "sweet anise" or "wild anise") Fennel, Foeniculum vulgare.

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